Total War: Warhammer III

cant even open this shit game

Runs fine for me 🤷‍♂️, it’s great.

Optimisation aside, it's - in a word - janky.

If you liked/ still like the previous game, you'll get something out of it (bugs and all). If you got a little bored of the previous game, you'll be a little bored of this one. It's more of the same.

The campaign is a chaotic clusterfuck, AI is still very limited and in many ways worse than ever, you'll still be wack-a-moling raiding armies who can always scoot away *just* out of reach, enemies will prioritise attacking the player and their allies over demons near their capital, sieges still suck etc.

The game is horrendously ugly, no two ways about it. The UI is both *all red and *badly designed. It's unclear, things are overlapping the whole time and it feels like you have a pop-up virus from the 00's with how little space is left to see the game itself. CA need to take notes from AoE4, Humankind, and their previous two games, Troy and 3 Kingdoms. This is a complete disaster. Moreover, the game hiding behind the UI is ugly as well, and blurs together into greyish-brown like a child's paint palette.

There are 7 factions (8 if you want to spend $$$ because day 1 dlc is a very CA move), most of which are very sparse at the moment.

This is a game designed to be fixed by dozens of 10euro patches.

Yeah there is jank for sure, but no more or less than previous titles. This has always been a glorious mess of a series - not everything is polished but on a whole it hits a spot that no other game does. What other strategy game has a fantasy world of this scope, with so many fleshed out races, all with deeply unique mechanics and with fully realised strategic gameplay + real time battles?

Criticising only 7 or 8 races seems a bit unfair. It has more races and diversity than any of the previous titles and these alone represent 100s of hours of gameplay.

It's definitely an expensive series if you want to access every single race / lord but its also a lot of content you're looking at. Do we rate the quality of games based on price here? We certainly don't do that for music or film.

At the moment, a mixed bag. For every improvement there's something that was fixed in the previous game but is unfixed in this one. Factions feel sparse at the moment and the Chaos Rift campaign doesn't seem very replayable. It's going to be really good once they iron out all the kinks and add Immortal Empires, and hopefully improve performance.

It's pretty much the same as WH2. Just a placeholder for Immortal Empires and DLC races.

Game's getting better on the regular, but they really need to patch bugs more frequently

They've really been cooking with Thrones of Decay, hope this will be their return to form and the suits not limiting the devs anymore.